Sean Combs Sued by Tune Producer for Sexual Assault, Intercourse Trafficking in Sprawling Criticism

A tune producer who says he worked on Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ 2023 album The Take care of Album: Off the Grid is accusing the hip-hop tycoon of sexual assault and harassment, sex trafficking and various various forms of misconduct in a sprawling lawsuit filed Monday (Feb. 26).

Within the criticism, filed by plaintiff Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr. in New York federal courtroom, the producer accuses Combs of “groping and touching” his anus and looking out for to groom him into participating in sexual acts with Combs and various individuals, including Take care of Album producer Steven Aaron Jordan (a.ok.a. Stevie J) and a cousin of Combs’ ex-lady friend Yung Miami (named as a Jane Doe defendant). He furthermore claims that Combs “forced” him to “solicit sex workers,” some of whom had been underage, as nicely as to “carry out sex acts to the pleasure of Mr. Combs.”

In one alleged incident from February 2023, Jones claims he wakened “naked, dizzy, and confused” in a “bed with two sex workers and Mr. Combs” at Combs’ home in Miami and “believes” he modified into once drugged by Combs.

The lawsuit, filed by attorney Tyrone Blackburn, names numerous more defendants whom Jones claims conspired with Combs in an alleged “RICO challenge” to permit his misconduct: Fashioned Tune Community (UMG), its subsidiary Motown Records, Combs’ impress impress Take care of Records, UMG chairman/CEO Lucian Grainge, feeble Motown CEO/chairwoman Ethiopia Habtemariam; Combs’ chief of group, Kristina Khorram; and Combs’ son, Justin Combs. Federal RICO instances, which are based entirely entirely on the Racketeer Influenced and Unpleasant Organizations Act historically stale to pay attention to the mafia and drug cartels, are brought to more effectively sweep up members of alleged crime rings. (Severely, the continuing Georgia criminal case in opposition to Younger Thug that alleges the rapper ran a violent Atlanta avenue gang is based entirely entirely on a Georgia statute modeled off of the federal RICO legislation.)

In this case, Jones claims the “RICO challenge” in expect modified into once dwelling up to recruit sex workers, some of them underage, and to keep and distribute tablets and weapons out of Combs’ Miami home. He accuses the members in the alleged challenge of preserving him below their management by threatening him with violence, ostracism from the tune trade and nonpayment for work on the album, which he says he unruffled has not been compensated for despite having allegedly produced 9 tracks.

The lawsuit furthermore brings up an alleged September 2022 incident at Chalice Recording Studio in Hollywood, in some unspecified time in the future of a writing and producing camp for The Take care of Album, that allegedly resulted in a particular person being shot in the abdominal following a “heated dialog” between Combs, his son Justin Combs and yet every other unnamed man. Following the incident, Jones claims Combs forced him to lie to police by telling them the particular person modified into once injured in a force-by shooting launch air. Jones is suing Combs, UMG, Motown, Take care of Records and Chalice Recording Studio for offering “insufficient or negligent security” in some unspecified time in the future of the camp.

In a press unencumber sent to Billboard, Combs’ attorney Shawn Holley stated: “Lil Rod is nothing better than a liar who filed a $30 billion lawsuit shamelessly looking out for to obtain an undeserved payday. His reckless title-shedding about events that are pure fiction and merely did not happen is nothing better than a transparent are attempting to garner headlines. Now we indulge in overwhelming, indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies. Our makes an attempt to share this proof with Mr. Jones’ attorney, Tyrone Blackburn, indulge in been not well-known, as Mr. Blackburn refuses to reach our calls. We are able to address these irregular allegations in courtroom and use all appropriate movement in opposition to of us that create them.”

A spokesperson for Justin Combs sent the next commentary: “Justin Combs categorically denies these absurd allegations. They’re all lies! It is miles a certain instance of a desperate particular person taking desperate measures in hopes of a pay day. There’ll in all probability be authorized consequences for all defamatory statements made in regards to the Combs family.”

Representatives for UMG, Motown, Take care of Records, Grainge and Chalice Recording Studio did not straight away respond to requests for remark. Habtemariam could possibly perchance also not be positioned for remark at press time.

Jones is soliciting for damages for loss of previous and future revenue as nicely as “psychological grief, humiliation, embarrassment, stress and dismay, emotional effort and suffering, and emotional effort”; punitive damages; and the costs of bringing the suit.

The Take care of Album modified into once in the starting place presented in May possibly furthermore 2022 as a unencumber on Combs’ newly fashioned impress Take care of Records, to be released in tandem with UMG’s Motown. Nonetheless, the album — which featured a laundry checklist of stars including Mary J. Blige, Burna Boy, John Yarn, Justin Bieber and The Weeknd — modified into once in the kill released independently in September 2023.

Jones’ lawsuit is correct essentially the most modern in a string of authorized accusations to be lodged in opposition to Combs staunch thru the final numerous months. In November, Combs’ longtime lady friend, R&B singer Cassie, sued him for rape and bodily abuse, though the case modified into once promptly settled. He modified into once attributable to this truth sued by two more women folks for sexual assault and later by a Jane Doe who claimed Combs “sex trafficked” and “gang raped” her when she modified into once 17. Combs has denied the general allegations.